Emulator help please

[petrman]

Hi I'm new to the xlobby scene. I have been lurking for a while and for about 2 months have xlobby configured nicely to my needs. However I am having a hell of a time with emulators. I'm doing my Nintendo roms now. I am using the heavymetal skin (which is awesome thanks baddabing) Now I have the database showing and I click on a rom. and it starts the emulator nestopia or jnes tried both but I can't pass the game to start. I'm sure the problem lies in my arguement line in my execute function. But I'm to noob to know how to fix it. Please help. Thanks Right now using jnes and my arguement is %games>rom% I followed baddabings tutorial on setting this up. (Maybe not well enough!)

[scottw]

Hi I'm new to the xlobby scene. I have been lurking for a while and for about 2 months have xlobby configured nicely to my needs. However I am having a hell of a time with emulators. I'm doing my Nintendo roms now. I am using the heavymetal skin (which is awesome thanks baddabing) Now I have the database showing and I click on a rom. and it starts the emulator nestopia or jnes tried both but I can't pass the game to start. I'm sure the problem lies in my arguement line in my execute function. But I'm to noob to know how to fix it. Please help. Thanks Right now using jnes and my arguement is %games>rom% I followed baddabings tutorial on setting this up. (Maybe not well enough!)

Not sure how that skin or yours is setup but did you try %games>parameter% or maybe put it in quotes.

Hope this helps.

[petrman]

Hi I'm new to the xlobby scene. I have been lurking for a while and for about 2 months have xlobby configured nicely to my needs. However I am having a hell of a time with emulators. I'm doing my Nintendo roms now. I am using the heavymetal skin (which is awesome thanks baddabing) Now I have the database showing and I click on a rom. and it starts the emulator nestopia or jnes tried both but I can't pass the game to start. I'm sure the problem lies in my arguement line in my execute function. But I'm to noob to know how to fix it. Please help. Thanks Right now using jnes and my arguement is %games>rom% I followed baddabings tutorial on setting this up. (Maybe not well enough!)

Not sure how that skin or yours is setup but did you try %games>parameter% or maybe put it in quotes.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply tried both of these didn't work either just opened the correct program like it was doing. any more ideas.
Thanks

[scottw]

I loaded up the HM skin and if it's the same one you have you click on Games and then Nintendo, right?

If so and you left the defaults it needs to be %nintendo>parameter%

You use the category name not the database name.
Also how did you get the roms into XL, using the the roms template?

[hvs69]

I have created a simple dos batch file like this to see what parameter is Xlobby passing.

echo %1
pause

you can name this file with .bat extension and try to pass the parameter to this file. You will see it in the dos window and will help you to debug.

As sottw stated, you have to use CATEGORY name not DATABASE name,

[sharp_1]

stupid question: Where are you guys getting the games in rom format? are they downloadable?

[petrman]

I loaded up the HM skin and if it's the same one you have you click on Games and then Nintendo, right?

If so and you left the defaults it needs to be %nintendo>parameter%

You use the category name not the database name.
Also how did you get the roms into XL, using the the roms template?

my catergory was nes works now! thanks guys for the help. Now a new problem. I'm using jnes when i click on a game loads fullscreen nicely with game no problems there. Now I can't exit back to xlobby or even the menu in jnes. any ideas on how to end a game when done with a keyboard stroke or gamepad button. (usiong the xbox 360 gamepad). And not to overload you guys but in the games page of the heavymetal skin I have the mame button and the playstaion button. I want to change those to the 2 pc games i want to play. ut2004 and halo ce. I know how to change the text and all that. So i want to tie an event to each button respectively to execute program and then give the button the ut2004 exe and the halo.exe. However I don't think thats all I got to do. Any tips on this. Thanks guys